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... abyss . The " abrupt abyss " Satan confronts in chaos becomes , for Wordsworth , a temporal abyss over which the poet re- peatedly hangs suspended , catching from Miltonic echoes the measurement of intervening time . From Milton comes ...
... abyss . The " abrupt abyss " Satan confronts in chaos becomes , for Wordsworth , a temporal abyss over which the poet re- peatedly hangs suspended , catching from Miltonic echoes the measurement of intervening time . From Milton comes ...
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... abyss with " voice issuing forth to silent light " ( XIV.73 ) . The fear is that these projections will prove inadequate , that imagination will confront only itself as unfathered vapor rising from the mind's abyss . Reimagining those ...
... abyss with " voice issuing forth to silent light " ( XIV.73 ) . The fear is that these projections will prove inadequate , that imagination will confront only itself as unfathered vapor rising from the mind's abyss . Reimagining those ...
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... abyss , not spanning it but brooding on it till it brings forth new imaginative life . The abyss of con- sciousness opens to reveal , beyond the awareness of loss , the awareness of new worlds . Poetry thus participates in the divine ...
... abyss , not spanning it but brooding on it till it brings forth new imaginative life . The abyss of con- sciousness opens to reveal , beyond the awareness of loss , the awareness of new worlds . Poetry thus participates in the divine ...
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abstraction abyss Adam Adam's alternatives angels arrest awareness Blake capture comes Comus confrontation consciousness create creation creative death distance divine dream earth echo emblem epic eternal Eve's experience expression fall fallen false surmise Faust fiction Geoffrey Hartman God's Harold Bloom heaven human Il Penseroso imaginative Keats Kierkegaard L'Allegro literary loss Lycidas ment metaphor Milton mind moral muse narrative nature ness Northrop Frye numbers Ode to Duty opening option Orpheus Paradise Lost Paradise Regained passage past pause Penseroso phrase poem poet poet's poetic voice poetry of choice Prelude present prophetic reader redemption relation relationship repetition revision romantic Satan seems self-consciousness sense Shelley Shelley's silence sing song sonnet space stand stasis T. S. Eliot takes temporal temptation thee things thir thou tion turn Urizen verse vision W. H. Auden Wallace Stevens word Wordsworth